All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
